Press and daily Dakotaian. (Yankton, Dakota Territory [S.D.]) 1880-1889, 1887-08-05

IL uptS NOT seem tnat any argument
10 necessary in behalf OF the establish
ment OF two governments within what
is now called the territory OF Dakota--a
government for the north and govern
ment for the south. Dakota hes already
divided itself. The process has been
gradual and division has come inper--
ceptibly out of the necessities of the
situation. Having practically accom-
plished division we are making ourselves
no end OF trouble in endeavoring TO run
the two fragments with ono governmental
machine. 1t is a strained condition,
which drives ont all harmony OF thought
and action. We daily demonstrate to
ourselves and the outside public that
Dakota must have two separate govern.
ments and at the same time a partisan
fraction Of the whole declaims against
the existing necessity.
Ii the reader will give to the situation
b brief analysis he will soon reach the
conclusion that there is nothing in
common between the north
and the south excepting
its joint nominal proprietor.
ship in system Of carpet bag govern.
ment. All other matters Of public con.
cern are partitioned by the forty .eixth
parallel. Dakota's doctors, lawyers
farmers, editors, bankers and business
men OF all calllngs who have organized
into associations have created one aseo-
citation TO. the north half and one asso.
citation for the south half. Our churches
recognize the imperative Law OF separa.
tion in.two distinct organizations divi-
ded by the forty-s;xth parallel. The
Episcopal church has a bishop for the
north half and a bishop
for the south half. The
Catholic church during the present
month will arrange It's jurisdiction upon
a like plan. The Congregationalists Of
the north have nothing in common with
the Congregationalists Of the south and
in each division build their separate and
Independents educational institutions
So with the other sctive religious de-
nominations ct our territory. We ere
granted by act OF Legislature two terri.
torlal fairs-one for the north half and
one for the south half and the firemen'i
organizations Of Dakota have divided
upon the same arbitrary line. Even the
railroad systems OF the north and the
south are as separate and distinct as the
| syssems Of two independent contiguous
states. There is here and there q con
neoting link, but each system has VI.
northern and Its southern center from
which its lines rsdiate. South Dakota
| with its varied products sends its sur
plus supplies to the marts Of Lake Mi.
chigan, while north Dakota transports
its one product TO the factories o
the upper Mississippi. The iEhabitans
OF the north draw their corporal and in
teilectal Injuries from mart upon th'
upper Mississippi, while the inhabitant
OF the south go to the lake
shore commercial centers for thei
commodities. Through the legislatiy
enactmenss Of q long Eeries of year
there he's been constructed ffr the soutl
one sot Of charitable and pensl institu
tions and for the north another sel
| The jurisdiction of each is bounded b
the forty -efxth parallel OF latitude.
i The two sections have but one thin
| in scotnmon-an inadequate and in
| eflnent governmental organization, an
they have this only because it is force
upon them BIZ an inexorable Law Of th
nation to which they owe allegiance